7.1 Myanmar and the Philippines will increasingly explore greater collaboration in governance and thus accompany the former to become a dependent region of the latter while deepening its identity and self-determination.

7.2 The existing governance relationships between Indonesia and Malaysia-Singapore, and Indonesia and Thailand are to be reviewed and future restructuring be carefully studied and explored. The statutes are to be determined and reviewed. If there are none, the statutes of relationship should be written to define more clearly the structure of governance and submitted to Fr General for approval, after determining the most appropriate governance structures for these regions.

7.3 The governance of East Timor Region and Cambodia Mission will be strengthened.

7.4 The Indonesia Province and Pakistan Mission will discern ways of strengthening governance collaboration and reconfiguration.

7.5 The Province of Australia and the Independent Region of Timor Leste will discern the possibility of governance restructuring toward making the latter a dependent region of the former.

7.6 Laos as an emerging mission needs to be strengthened and supported.

Targeted outputs:

7a. Statutes for MYN-PHI is established in 2021. (Major Superior (MS) of MYN, PHI)

7b. MAS: Possibility of independent region status is explored by Apr 2022. (MS of MAS)

7c. TAI: Various possibilities of relationship with IDO are explored and new status formalized through statutes by Jul 2021. (MS of IDO, TAI)

7d. KAM: Governance structure is reviewed through discernment in common and finalized by Apr 2021. Apostolic plan is evaluated by Jul 2021 and the next steps will be discerned. (MS of KAM, KOR)

7e. ETR: Role of the ETR Consortium is reviewed in 2021 and apostolic plan is evaluated and recalibrated over the next 2 years. (MS of ETR, Consortium)

7f. IDO-Pakistan Mission: Explore the possibility of Pakistan becoming a mission of IDO (MS of IDO and LS of Pakistan)

7g. ASL-ETR: Discern the possibility of ETR becoming a dependent region of ASL (MS of ASL and ETR)

7h. Laos: Apostolic plan (2018-2020) is evaluated and new 10-year plan is made in 2021, together with VIE’s 10-year apostolic plan. Collaboration with JCAP is enhanced, and new collaborations explored with TAI and KAM. Possibility of legal status is explored over the next 3-5 years. (MS of VIE)